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April 2002 JUG Meeting:</h2>

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Triangle Java Users Group Presents:</h3></center>



<p align="center"><font size="5">Java Server Pages Workshop:</font><br>

<font size="4">The (Almost) Blind Leading the Blind </font>



<p align="center"><b>presented by</b>



<p align="center"><b>Rick Fincher</b> of <b>Thunderbird Technologies, Inc.</b></p>



<p align="center">Monday, April 15, 2002



<br>6:30 PM - 9:00 PM



<p align="center">LOCATION: MCNC Auditorium



<br>3021 Cornwallis Road



<br>Research Triangle Park, North Carolina



<p align="center">919.248.1800



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<b>Abstract:</b><br>

Rick Fincher will present an introductory "how-to" workshop on Java Server

Pages.  He will concentrate on the basics of how to set up a secure Tomcat JSP

server, and how to write, compile, deploy, and test JSP's.  Freeware/Open

Source

tools will be used for the most part to demonstrate how low cost dynamic web

pages with SQL database access can be fielded.

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Since this is a workshop, members are encouraged to bring to the meeting

copies

of books or other resources that they have found useful in learning about

JSP's.

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  <b>About Speaker:</b><br>

Rick Fincher has the rather grandiose title of Director of Computer Services

at

Thunderbird Technologies, Inc.  Since there is only one person in the

department

he is, in fact, the company's "computer guy".  He has been working with

computers for 16 years in the Pharmaceutical and Semiconductor industries.  He

is NOT a JSP expert.  He has, however, stumbled through the dark room of

learning JSP's.  He hopes to prevent others from tripping on the same chairs

that he did while groping in the dark.  He fully expects to learn something

from

this workshop when the audience points out his ignorance, or cases where he is

just plain wrong.</p>

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  <b>About Company:</b><br>

  Thunderbird Technologies, Inc. is a small semiconductor research and

development

company in Morrisville,  NC.  Thunderbird scientists and engineers have

received

over 20 patents in the last 10 years in the area of semiconductor devices.

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  <b>Format:</b><br>

  This will be a workshop with demonstrations of how to perform tasks.  Audience

questions and white-board explanations will occur throughout.  It will last

about 75 minutes with a 15 minute wrap-up at the end to discuss the

effectiveness of the workshop and to target topics for possible future

discussion.

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AGENDA:</h3>

    6:30 &#150; 7:00 PM &#151; Meet, Talk, Snacks

<br>7:00 &#150; 7:15 &#151; JUG Business and Announcements

<br>7:15 &#150; 8:30 &#151; JSP Workshop

<br>8:30 &#150; 8:45 &#151; Wrap-up Discussion

<br>9:00 &#151; Doors close



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DIRECTIONS to MCNC:</h3>



<b>From Raleigh:</b>



<br>Take I-40 West toward Durham and Chapel Hill. You will enter RTP. Where



I-40 splits, bear right onto the Durham Freeway North (Highway 147). Take



the Cornwallis Road Exit. At the end of the exit ramp, bear right - cross



back over the Freeway. MCNC is located approximately 3/4 mile on the right.



<p><b>From Durham:</b>



<br>Get on the Durham Freeway South (Highway 147). Take the Cornwallis



Road exit. At the end of the ramp, bear right - MCNC is approximately 3/4



mile on right.



<p>Click here for <a href="http://trijug.org/mcnc/?/directions.html">map with



directions</a>, or visit the <a href="http://trijug.org/mcnc/?/gotomcnc.html">MCNC



web site</a>.



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